New King James Version
Leviticus 19:35
35‘You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume.
Leviticus 19:35 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight, or volume.
Context of Leviticus 19:35
33‘And if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him. 34The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume. 36You shall have honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37‘Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them: I am the Lord.’ ”
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לֹא־תַעֲשׂ֥וּ עָ֖וֶל בַּמִּשְׁפָּ֑ט בַּמִּדָּ֕ה בַּמִּשְׁקָ֖ל וּבַמְּשׂוּרָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Leviticus 19:35
- Leviticus 19:15‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.
- Deuteronomy 25:13“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light.
- Proverbs 11:1Dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord, But a just weight is His delight.
- Proverbs 16:11Honest weights and scales are the Lord’s; All the weights in the bag are His work.
- Proverbs 20:10Diverse weights and diverse measures, They are both alike, an abomination to the Lord.
- Ezekiel 22:12In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.
- Amos 8:5Saying: “When will the New Moon be past, That we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, That we may trade wheat? Making the ephah small and the shekel large, Falsifying the scales by deceit,
- Micah 6:1Hear now what the Lord says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, And let the hills hear your voice.
- Matthew 7:2For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
Commentaries on Leviticus 19:35
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 35Ye shall do no unrighteousness - Ye shall not act contrary to the strictest justice in any case, and especially in the four following, which properly understood, comprise all that can occur between a man and his fellow. Judgment in all cases that come before the civil magistrate; he is to judge and decide according to the law. Mete-Yard, במדה bammiddah, in measures of length and surface, such as the reed, cubit, foot, span, hand's breadth, among the Jews…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 35The ephah is here taken as the standard of dry measure, and the bin (see Exodus 29:40 note) as the standard of liquid measure. Of the two very different estimates of the capacities of these measures, the more probable is that the ephah did not hold quite four gallons and a half, and the hin not quite six pints. The log was a twelfth part of the hin Leviticus 14:10. Leviticus 19:36 I am the Lord your God - A full stop should precede these words. They…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 35-36dishonest measures: Merchants sometimes used two sets of weights, one heavy and one light to cheat customers (Deuteronomy 25:13–15). The Bible clearly states that God detested this practice (Proverbs 11:1; 16:11; 20:10, 23; Micah 6:11).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-372. Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel--Many of the laws enumerated in this chapter had been previously announced. As they were, however, of a general application, not suited to particular classes, but to the nation at large, so Moses seems, according to divine instructions, to have rehearsed them, perhaps on different occasions and to successive divisions of the people, till "all the congregation of the children of Israel" were…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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